dtc

@dtc@lemmy.pt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever caught a marketing or spam email sent using one of your email aliases?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using email aliases for a few years now, but all spam I get is addressed to my main email (which admittedly is readily available on my website). Seems like no one has sold my email address yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Facebook/Meta Messenger on Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems to still be available on F-Droid, but the last update was in 2017. I’ve installed it, but ended up not logging in since it’s targeting an SDK version so old that Android is giving me a bunch of warnings (and it doesn’t even scale to my entire screen, there’s a big black space at the bottom)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Facebook/Meta Messenger on Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this “problem” before, and I did not want to use the full Messenger app for privacy reasons as well. I had installed Messenger Lite, but it was discontinued a few weeks ago. I now have Facebook Lite, which also has Messenger, and you get notifications as well. It’s not perfect, but don’t give it too many permissions and you should be mostly fine. Using it in the browser is absolutely terrible, and you would not get push notifications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you keeping on top of fleet updates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the process of migrating my servers to NixOS. It takes a lot of time and the learning curve is steep, but I have one config shared for all the servers and PCs. I have setup the servers to automatically pull the latest configuration everyday and even restart if there’s a kernel update.

  This means I just need to update my laptop and push the changes to the repository, and all the servers will also update.

  I haven’t had this setup long enough to know if things will break unexpectedly with updates tho. NixOS has a great feature where you can rollback to a previous configuration (generation) with a single command. You can always keep using containers to isolate updates, if you want (Nix allows you to declare those in the config as well).

  As an example, you can take a look at my config.